How does a cell know when it’s been damaged? A molecular alarm, set off by mutated RNA and colliding ribosomes, signals ...

With the long-term goal of creating living cells from non-living components, scientists in the field of synthetic biology ...

Once dismissed as “junk,” a group of RNA molecules has been found to help regrow damaged nerves in mice in new research. The ...

Researchers have now shown that transcription factors can bind to RNA as well, and that attachment has significant impacts on gene expression. The findings have been reported in Molecular Cell . When ...

The research, which has direct implications for how root systems manage responses to plant hormones, also has broader implications for understanding the condensation of other motile proteins that move ...

A ll cells in the body reach a point where they stop dividing, but some get there quicker under the influence of pressures, such as DNA damage or oxidative stress. 1 Biologists have long studied how ...

Every living cell must interpret its genetic code - a sequence of chemical letters that governs countless cellular functions.

A paper appears in Cell today that provides some more unexpected information regarding transcription, the process by which genes are copied from DNA into RNA, the first step on their way to being ...

These non-coding transcripts can mediate gene expression and the activity of mRNAs after transcription. RNA polymerase III RNA polymerase III 2 transcribes rRNA genes into small RNAs like transfer RNA ...

S enescent cells, those that persist in the body despite having halted cell division, undergo a process called cryptic transcription, whereby they produce RNA transcripts from short sequences nested ...

Every living cell must interpret its genetic code—a sequence of chemical letters that governs countless cellular functions. A ...

With the long-term goal of creating living cells from non-living components, scientists in the field of synthetic biology work with RNA origami. This tool uses the multifunctionality of the ...